Alexey Dreev
Number of games in database: 2,236
Years covered: 1982 to 2015
Last FIDE rating: 2638(2706 rapid, 2741 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2711Overall record: +640 -247 =934 (60.8%)*
* Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
415 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

Alexey Sergeevich Dreev learned chess at the age of six and was World Under-16 Champion in 1983 and 1984. He captured the USSR Junior Championship in 1986 and achieved the grandmaster title in 1990. In 1995 he was clear first at both the Wijk aan Zee and the Biel tournaments. He reached the quarterfinals of the FIDE World Championship in 1997, and the Round of 16 in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2004. He also reached the Round of 16 in the FIDE World Cup (2005).

plang: It is titled "My One Hundred Best Games". I saw it advertised on the London Chess Centre (through This Week in Chess-TWIC)which means that it is available in Europe but not the US yet.
Bolagan and Karpov also have best games collections out now as well.

Troller: <plang: He has just come out with a book of his best games> Interesting, but this does not answer my question.

I remember Dreev, Gelfand and Ivanchuk as the golden boys of USSR of the late 1980's. I only noticed Dreev's rating since he won the rapid tournament in Villarrobledo. At least this suggests that he can still play at a high level, even if it was rapid.

The 100 games in this book have been carefully selected and analyzed, with a fair amount of emphasis on the openings. The reader is also treated to a bonus which is rarely seen in a chess book: eight pages of full-color photographs.

The positive aspects of the book end here. The editing was done in a hasty and careless manner. The translation also leaves much to be desired, as many of the notes feature phrases which are translated too literally from the original Russian version. There are also numerous spelling errors and inconsistencies throughout the book.

There are some instances where Russian words were left in the English text. For example, on page 152, in the introductory note on the Balashov-Dreev game, we read: "It coincided with the famous scandal of the year 1998 goda."

There are some places in the book where translation from Russian to English was inappropriate. For example, "the town of Mineral Waters" on page eight, instead of "Mineralnye Vody" (you don't see "Dos Hermanas" translated to "Two Sisters", do you?). At the European Club Cup of 2002, Dreev played for the team "Norilsky Nikel" which was translated to "The Nickel from Norilsk". See: http://www.nornik.ru .

Chess figures sometimes are seen where letters should be used. On page 43, we see "♖uslan"; and on page 129, we see "USS♖".

Many players mentioned in this book have their names spelled two, three, or even four different ways! GM Miguel Illescas-Cordoba is given as "Illescas Cordoba" on pages 167-8, "Illeskas" on page 196, and both "Ileskas" and "Illescas" on page 269. The editors also do a butcher job with Krishnan Sasikiran , for on page 157, it appears as "Sasikiran", on page 158 as "Sashikiran", and on page 239 as "Saskirian".

There is an index of openings at the end of the book, but the names of the openings do not appear, only the ECO codes.

Speaking of openings, Dreev plays 1.d4 in the overwhelming majority of his games. With Black he plays primarily the Caro-Kann and French against 1.e4. Against 1.d4, he normally defends with the Semi-Slav.

There are only two Sicilians in this book, one Nimzo-Indian, and only one game starting with 1.e4 e5 (a Ponziani!).

The retail price of this book is $29.95, which seems a bit steep, in my opinion. It is available through http://www.uschess.org .

GM Dreev should revise this book in a few more years, the way Viswanathan Anand did with his games collection, then find a publisher who is more dedicated to accuracy.

eternaloptimist: The fact that he got to the quarterfinals of the FIDE world championship 4 times in a row speaks for itself. He is one of the best endgame players in the world, & this is what enabled him to do this. In the chessgames database Dreev has a very respectable record of 2 wins, 3 losses & 1 draw against Kasparov! He was black in both of the games he won!!

paavoh: Dreev iurrently playing a nice endgame against Movsesian in the Russian Team Championships, round 3 (see chessdom.com live games). I hope CG will soon get these high-level games in their database.

<He reached the quarterfinals of the FIDE World Championship on four consecutive occasions (1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001). In late 2004 his Elo surpassed the 2700 mark after he finished third in the Russian Championships (2004).>

The first part is wrong, see the post above. The second one is wrong too, he was rated over 2700 for the first time on the October 2003 list, i.e. a year earlier

Karpova: Congratulations on winning the 3rd Indonesia Open Chess Championship 2013 (October 9-18, play from October 10-17) at the Grand Sahid Jaya Hotel in Jakarta. Dreev won with 8.5/11 ahead of Moiseenko and Short with 7.5 each (Moiseenko with better tie-breaks, both were followed by 7 other players with 7.5 points) and receives $20,000.

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